Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experience in Gentle Jack and the speech that caused all the problems in that play stood him in good stead . |
| 2 | In that case use it in scientific and then it will work that way . |
| 3 | The hooded eyes surveyed her with frank appreciation mingled with amusement . |
| 4 | So what would we do to both sides of the equation what would we do to that side to turn it into opposite instead of opposite divided by a hundred and twenty . |
| 5 | And it was a record that came to be seen and recognised by the local electorate , in particular the newly enfranchised women , not least through the efforts of Labour candidates to exploit it to political advantage . |
| 6 | I was selling houses and apartments on a commission basis , and I think that my English accent stood me in good stead . |
| 7 | The political implication is that blacks should be self-assertive and proud of their black identity and not rely on well-meaning attempts to assimilate them into white society . |
| 8 | This decision filled her with profound gloom ; not only because her home had been so special and so very much loved , but also because the selling of Rose Cottage could do nothing but plunge her into financial disaster . |
| 9 | The projects focus on maintaining and protecting the species ' habitats , and in some cases establishing them in new habitats . |
| 10 | Thereafter he quickly became its most renowned liberal member , leading some opponents to accuse him of judicial activism . |
| 11 | This episode takes him across Western Turkey and the Mediterranean , on to Greece , and Rhodes ( where he meets astrologer Patric Walker ) before hitting Africa in the shape of Egypt and Luxor . |
| 12 | This attitude protects you from negative suggestions and strengthens your defence mechanism in a socially acceptable way . |
| 13 | Their exploitation of this recently opened path aroused jealousy among the knights , one of whom refused to answer a charge levelled against him by the Erembalds in the court of Charles the Good , on the ground that his accusers ' lowly social origins barred them from comital justice . |
| 14 | His observation of the way in which after 1942 Churchill took on the role of Roosevelt 's faithful second left him with long-lasting suspicions of Britain 's priorities . |
| 15 | Repêchages were in the afternoon with all British boats making it to semi finals . |
| 16 | Discovered in 1953 by Hong Kong herpetologist John Romer , the frog 's exceedingly primitive nature makes it of special interest . |
| 17 | Finally , another academic justified it on motivational and cognitive grounds : |
| 18 | Chain , exasperated by the British failure to provide him with adequate research facilities , migrated to Rome , but was retained as a consultant by Beecham 's at a time when the firm was rapidly developing its research facilities . |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman asked me about future numbers . |
| 20 | This assignment introduced you to various sequences of notes played ascending and descending , within all five pentatonic scale shapes . |
| 21 | Yet I found that the breadth of my Scottish education stood me in good stead in the work of assessing and editing material from the whole agenda of a serious newspaper . |
| 22 | On the other hand , some people see it as instant answer to every problem in life . |
| 23 | I like to haver this dog to protect me against gorgeous women . |
| 24 | Enchanted , she too watched the sweet-faced boy who was chattering excitedly while his fond father plied him with Carnival cakes . |
| 25 | with some Ernst to connect 'em at other end of the spectrum |
| 26 | This highlight sustains us through successive rooms of the flotsam and jetsam of royal life , not least a sample of the reams of press cuttings . |
| 27 | I suppose that simple precept from that old foreman stood me in good stead for thirty odd years , until now . ’ |
| 28 | French press releases overran our positions , German amendments raked us with deadly fire . |
| 29 | So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed ; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study . |
| 30 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |